Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Making bird spotting friends on the Internet

I'm 'meeting' many people interested in the Small Garden Song Bird Refuge on the Internet. Emi Shigano of Florida sent me the photo she took of an American Robin with a grub in his mouth. She writes in her posts of her children's responses to watching birds and their behavior. I invite anyone to make comments and post photos on Untamed.

It looks as if the map I'd intended to start with is rapidly becoming national. The National Wildlife Federation website has been an excellent resource for giving me some possibilities to explore.

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Maynard Cottage. Home on hah-choo, Big Lake

Imagining my garden before 1854. Its story from 1917 - 2010.

A home that connects to history of place: echoes of Native American presence on the lakeshore; to the north and south, two dormant volcanos, to the east the Cascades, to the west the rainforest and Olympics; a spawning stream for salmon running underneath the garden; diversity of vegetation in garden and surroundings showing the migration of plants and trees in a neighborhood that also speaks of migrations, diverse culturally, ethnically, economically rooting themselves or being rooted in a shared space, I being a nomad who settled here. It's the settling that's important and the growing love for a place that comes from being settled in it. The settler will struggle to conserve.

A house, first a fishing cabin, whose history is told in the changes its owners over almost a 100 years have made to it, built with old growth Douglas fir floated on barges on the lake in front of the house, the signatures of the Scandinavian carpenters on the framework.

An old house whose inhabitants are connected with local, regional, national and international communities and organizations that focus on right relationship with human beings and their environments.